Stephen Blair
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i was told that small black line was the 'third ascending timber' the trees natural defense against infection and rot. but most of my knowledge has been picked up along the way, and my memory is crap.
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there was a lad in the village where i used to live, you couldnt leave anything with a key in it or he would be off in it, i mean anything!!he was well known to the local police. he was just crazy in a nice but worrying way. he stole a road roller once, the cops let him have a blast for about an hour till they finished there lunch and then lifted him about quarter of a mile up a farm road lol:001_smile:last time i saw him he was in an old maestro turbo doing about 150 mph:scared1:
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thats the way skelfs should work, nice.
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years ago before my septisemia scare, i jabbed my knuckle but didnt realise it was from hawthorn, as there was no skelf. i went to a+e. they gave me a hand brace thing to try and hold my fingers open. i kept climbing and it was agony, it took about a week to go away. if i knew what it was they could of sorted it quicker.
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if you were crabit with the bad back, now with a sore hand:ohmy:poor mrs lofthouse having to live with you, lets hope your typing finger is ok mate. i was told if i had left it another few days i would of lost my fingy:scared1:
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one of each please justin, stick em in the bag mate. cheers
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its an 8m foresterri. dean. there was another ash you couldnt see in the picture. they are right at the front of the log pile now:001_smile: bbb, i would class it as a 99.9% reduction as i left the stumps about 2 inches high. the garden was full of stones and boulders. and i had already taken the edge off the saw with an old coppiced rowan full of crap. i just noticed, in the last pic you can see my shadow taking the pic standing ontop of the tractor roof lol
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this afternoons chores. the sun actually came out again:001_smile:
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holy moly, that is awesome
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stupid and lucky did the saw have a chain break?
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hawthorn releases histamin into the body, a jab in the knuckle is worse than the thorn for pain, but the thorn can lead to septisemia, i left one for about 10 days, tried to dig it out myself before going to the drs for the pain, she gave me hell, a course of anti biotics for a week. get it looked at asap dean.
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15-20%
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not good, hope he gets well soon.
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i think it is nonesense, how many gardeners and landscapers carry a liscence. we spend tens of thousands on specialised kit for recycling yet they still want more money. they can come to my yard any day and see the log pile,chip pile and compost pile. i got stopped one day for not having a permit for carrying stuff across a pavement. do you know everyone from gardeners to removal men should have the equivelant of a skip permit when doing this. it is free, but still takes time on paperwork. when i pointed out that down the road there were at least half a dozen tradesman all carrying stuff back and forward, when i asked if they had a permit, he said i can only presume they have. i got my pa to spend every waking minute of the day for a week blanketing every house,street in our town for a month. they soon got fed up with this and didnt bother me again. -
thats shocking mate, hope they find it soon. it must be sole destroying when that happens:thumbdown:
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did you look at his gallery edd, the bark on that big pop look well gnarly. i love the pic with the crane lifting the timber over the six groundies all getting stuck:001_smile: in. good on him, takes bottle to buy something a bit different.
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yes they are a proper pain filling them, and time consuming. but there are plenty of rainy days just now
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stick it in the corner of the yard and cut bits off here and there for woodturny folk, but you probably wont get enough dow to cover your time, firewood being 140quid a ton just now, i know what i would do with it:sneaky2:
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no no no , get a big pile of sawdust, sit the saw right in the middle and start pottering with the wee tube thingy, you need to re inact the real thing, get someone to spray you with water and get a leaf blower on you as well, just when you get the filter off, drop it in the sawdust, let go of the wee tube, it then goes shooting back in the tank, so you then run about in a rager wishing you had stuck to your old job:scared1:
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just looked it up in wikipidia. everything is poisinios except the jelly bit of the fruit, the cemetry bit with the livestock isnt 100%. have a look its pretty interesting:001_smile:one thing is for sure , you dont want it on your salad:sad:
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i dont know of any scottish arb fairs
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the tears are rolling down my face, the moderators must be snoozing lolha ha. swandris are good, but basically a chekered donkey jacket. i am going to try and work that line into a sentence tomoroow. still giggling:001_tongue:
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i think they didnt want some big daft horse or cow bulldozing great aunty milldrids tombstone:ohmy:
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still makes me laugh lol
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when using your footlocking techniques to access large trees,it always looks to me that you are a fair bit out from the trunk(compared to prussiking) i take it when you are well up, you just make your way over to the trunk to put in your main line.can this be quite awkward?
